crop up again

Example Sentences

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Analysts expressed some surprise to see the Madoff case crop up again.

From MarketWatch • Oct. 27, 2025

But Brad Sears, executive director of the Williams Institute, which studies sexual orientation and gender identity law, said he was startled to see fears over rising prices crop up again and again.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 19, 2024

He said “it’s possible” the symptoms crop up again, though the White Sox have “far more confidence that this will be behind him.”

From Seattle Times • Aug. 2, 2022

On the seat were two books as well as the blue ceramic candle holder with burning white candle that, like the onions, the pipe and the tobacco, crop up again in the post-crisis still life.

From Washington Post • Mar. 12, 2019

Then Ralph would vaguely promise to do better, and the subject would be dropped, only to crop up again whenever the old man felt more savagely inclined than usual.

From Ralph Granger's Fortunes by Brown, William Perry